Your Club By Design:

The Very Rough Draft to A Guide in Structuring Your Academic Club

By: Ryan Patrick Mozingo

Youre Club by Design:

An Insiders Guide into Structuring Your Academic Group

Written By
Ryan Patrick Mozingo
President and Co-Founder of the Sociology Club at University of North Texas

Ryan Patrick Mozingo 12345 Main Street Suite 100 Denton, TX 76208 Phone 203.555.0167 Fax 203.555.0168

Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................1 What youll need to Get Started:.........................................................1 Step-by-step directions ...................................................................................2 Index ................................................................................................................3

Introduction

ost of the people who read this manual will already have a strong interest in academics. Ideally, the reader will be searching for effective ways to introduce and involve students who are new to a field. The content presented within this manual will be general enough to add to any preexisting model with the exclusions of the structure and position subsection. Providing a clear and concise instruction manual tailored towards undergraduates will enable students with several ideas that contribute to the creation and specific academic club. Also, this manual is a prime vehicle for providing awareness to your club; while, involving ways in which they can become involved in the academic life of any department. This manual concentrates on student academic clubs the benefits to the department and the students, their structure, developing a constitution, funding and fundraising, and marketing your group.

What youll need to Get Started:

A constitution A faculty coordinator A graduate and undergraduate president Something that distinguishes the group from others Content for the first and subsequent meetings Committee sign up forms An interested student body
Protip Generally speaking, new professors are more eager to participate in extracurricular activities. So in looking for a faculty coordinator, theyre the ones to speak with.

A constitution

Something that makes the group unique

If undergrad, a grad student acting as a grad pres.

Prior to the First Meeting

Interested Students; grad and under

Faculty Coordinator

Agenda for the first meeting Introduction of zhe Club

Mentorship Initiative

**Committee Step-by-step directions Sign Up: Admin, Digital,

Outreach, Social 1. During the first meeting, explain the committees and their functions to the aggregate group. F IGURE fellow 1: GRAPHIC NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AND INTEGRATED W / C HECK LIST . 2. Provide students an opportunity to ask questions.

3. Highlight the unique attributes of each committee. 4. Distribute the committee sign-up sheet. 5. Collect the committee sign-up sheet.

6. Sort students based upon their interests.

Digital

Admin.

Outreach

Social
F IGURE 2: S IMILAR TO F IG 1, T HE GRAPHIC WILL BE REPLACED TO I LLUSTRATE A STEP -BY -S TEP M ODEL .